Welcome to my new blog!

Finally got around to set up a self hosted WordPress blog. Thanks to Yonasu, who recommended one.com as hoster. (He also helped me with some coding stuff. Thx man!)

I signed up on Monday and got a server with 3000 MB space, unlimited traffic, unlimited e-mail accounts, virus- and spam filter, photo gallery, WebEditor, FTP-login, Statistics, PHP5 – MySQL, daily backup, the domain, Google Adwords, Live Help 24/7 and what not for… FREE for one year!

As far as I know this offer is only available in Austria, but the regular 1,25€ per month aren’t bad either.

Those of you familiar with my former blog will notice that the layout doesn’t seem that different first. But there are lot’s of improvements underneath.

The most important changes for as readers and for those who added me to their blogroll are:

• Obviously the URL was changed to austrianotaku.com. Please change this link in your blogroll.
• The feed changed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/austrianotaku. You can subscribe by simply clicking on the RSS icon on top of the right sidebar.
• You may notice that there’s also an “Email feed” icon up there for those of you who would like to receive updates via email.
• Last but not least: The Twitter icon. A quick way to follow my tweets for those who still don’t do it for whatever reason. ^_^

Some other features are:

• On the top of the main page you may have noticed the “Featured Content Gallery” which is like a best-of from my former blog You might see some older posts there too, but I think it’s a good opportunity for new visitors to discover what was going on here a few months ago. If you click on the text” Featured content” all of the featured articles show up as thumbnails.
• You can now edit your comments or request a deletion of them.

• Web 2.0 buttons: At the bottom of every post you will see “Tweet this”, “Stumble This”, “Plurk this” and a lot of other options. If you like an article fell free to share it!
• A feature mostly interesting for myself. Google Analytics. To monitor how many folks searched for “loli pantsu” on my blog and other important statistics. (^^;)
• IE6 upgrade notification: Yes I’d call that a feature. Folks who are still using this 9 year old piece of sh.. software will see a bar on top of the page telling them that they might see some things messed up. They will also get a bunch of upgrade options ranging from Firefox to IE8.

Known bugs: (Yes, I know there are some.)

• Unfortunately comment nesting doesn’t work at the moment. It looks like the theme I’m using has some work around code to disable comment nesting. But I think its not a bad idea anyway.  because nesting can be confusing if you use more than four levels. When you click on “Reply” the text “@[Nickname]” will be added to the comment field now. Might be a little bit old school but considering that discussion are often more than 5 levels deep it could be better that way.
• Messed up comment order on imported posts: I imported all posts from the old blog but it seems like the comment order wasn’t imported as it should have been. Noticed this on kodomut’s blog too when he started the self hosted blog. Is this a common problem?
• Another bug you may notice is the not clickable header. Actually I have no idea what’s wrong with it but if you have any ideas let me know!

I tested my blog on the latest versions off Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer. But there are so many configurations out there, so please let me now if you notice any problems!

This layout is not the final version but let me know if you have any suggestions.

Besides messing up my CSS I have to do something else soon too:

Finally got HoiHoi-san yesterday. I’m wondering why it took that long this time with EMS.

That “much” parts are aren’t a common sight for me, since I haven’t build a plamo kit for years.

I’ll let you know more about the progress soon… now I have to spend some time on my latest addiction:

Rori golf!  (If you don’t hear something from me next week, I probably died of blood loss after getting a sukumizu for Kooh.)

Ok, I didn’t want to make it that public, but I’m going crazy if I have to think about this any longer.

I’m currently searching for a domain name for a self hosted blog.

My creativity level seems to decrease with every hour I think about it…

hikky.com/.net is already taken. All names my comrades and I came up with are strange things like pantsurise.com, hikky-on, otaotoko.com … argh wtf.

Do you have good idea? Please let me know!

Seems like every year in September i feel the need to upgrade my blog. At least I did so exactly one year ago too.

There are several things I’d like to improve with the new design:

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1) The “contacting me” problem: Got a few comments of folks, who asked me how they can contact me. I have this icon with some little guys representing some instant messaging services, social networks and such with some additional text up there. This icon and text links to my Social-Me (aka About) page with all the information need to get in touch with me. Did you find it hard to find out some contact info too? Let me know below! Going to switch to a different theme with a navigation bar on-top and will add an about-page link there too. Should fix this problem hopefully.

2) Font size and font support: A simple question?  Does text appear like in the picture shown above on your system?

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3) The sidebar and the blogroll: Yes i know, there is way too much stuff in my small sidebar. Will be improved! Especially the shop banner section and the blogroll. What do you think about moving it to an page accessible via the upcoming navigation bar? Like this one over @ Blowfish’s burogu http://www.flyingpussyfoot.com/annotated-blogroll/

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Wondering if otaku.fm will ever be back? If not I guess I have to do something about those banners in my sidebar too ToT Has anyone more info about what Danny is up to with otaku.fm?

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Another thing that’s quite important nowadays is how  your webstuff performs on smart phones.

How does my blog look/work on your device? Can’t do much about it as I’m on wordpress.com but I’m interested nevertheless ^^

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Last but not least: The banner. My banners history isn’t very spectacular:

From V2.3.1 …

… to V3.2 …

… to my current one: V4.5

Special Cirno Day banner from a few days ago xD

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Will have to edit my current banner for the new theme. How do you like it, any ideas for improvements?

Would be great if you share your thoughts below. Feel free to suggest anything!

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And as thank you for those who didn’t stop reading half an hour ago… some ULTRA-high res Loli! (33MB)

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